Kasada Hospitality Fund LP (“Kasada”) announced the acquisition of a 1,602 keys hotel portfolio in Sub-Saharan African from AccorInvest. Okan acted as financial advisor to Kasada in the context of this deal.

Despite massive investments during the past 10 to 15 years, which led to the development of world-class infrastructure such as Tanger Med, Doraleh and Lomé, a lot still needs to be done in Africa’s port sector.

Competition between African ports allows to better address the needs of hinterland countries, but could lead to oversized investments.

The modernisation of Africa’s port sector has yielded some spectacular results, with a number of global champions emerging on the scene. What should public and private decision-makers do to speed up the process even more?

What does the African fintech landscape look like? Do fintechs manage to raise funds? How do they cope with the pandemic? We explain to you everything you need to know in this first edition of 2 minutes with Okan.

E-governance is an essential tool for implementing effective public policies, allowing more and more African countries to tackle the economic and social challenges they face.

Consolidation, privatization, digitization, regionalization… Okan Partners analyzes logistics sector’s main trends.

Africa can take advantage of the post-crisis period, and in particular the structural movements it could trigger in China and Asia, to locate its industry on the continent and serve its own markets with local production.

Race for gigantic ships, emergence of major port hubs, shift to Asia, development of automation and IT tools… Africa has not been left out of the shipping industry’s revolution!

The spectacular development of the industrial zones of Tanger-Med in Morocco, Hawassa in Ethiopia, Nkok in Gabon and Filatex in Madagascar, illustrates that a social and economic take-off of Africa is possible.